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WAITING FOR THE MAIL.
". Foss in Detroit Free Press.

s. ". Foss in Detroit Free Press.
With anxious features, worn and pale,
He waits the coming of the mail
Each day be asks with hope and fear,
My letter, is my letter herel"
Each day be hears in silence dumb,
mot yet. old man, il has not come"
The harmless mailman, old and gray,
No one would ieer or drive away.
"Ah me. - he says long years have past,
But 1t will come, twill come al last"
And so he waits In silence dumb,
The letter that will never come.
Through misty vision Of his tears.
He sees the long, far sundered years.
The past comes up before him there,
When he was strong. and she was fair;
Once more he feels in very truth,
The leaping pulses Of his youth;
A strong, strange JOY he feels again
The old wild fever In his brain
An angry word, a careless tone
And she has gone and he's alone;
Since then he waits in silence dumb,
The letter that will never come.
Alas his poor old wits are fled,
He cannot know that she is dead;
And so he asks it DER and DER,
The same old question as before.
He waits with morning light 10 say.
Ny letter-it will come to-day
With totteiing limbs that almost fail,
He creeps each morning TO the mail,
And hears with ever new regret,
Not yet, old man, not yet. not yet"
And 50 he waits in silence dumb,
The letter that will never come.
All me poor mailman, even we
Are dupes of tickle destiny;
In ceaseless hope We waiting sit,
For miSSlveS that were never writ.
We wait to see the harvest grown,
OF seed that we have never sown;
We seek the harbOr mouth TO hail
The vessels that will never sail.
We wait to see our gamers filed
With fruit of fields We have not titled
We wait IN gathering Stiffness dumb,
For letters that will never come
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THE PRESIDENTS MAIL.
Letters From all Sorts Of People, In
Guiding Children.

Letters From all Sorts Of People, In
Guiding Children.
From Washington letter to Ne,o York Hclaid.
The Presidents mail contains an average
of from 100 70 $50 letters day from per-
SONS whose claims for pension are pending
before the department. Those people ad-
dress The Chief Executive in the belief.
probably, that thepension Office is next door
to the White House and TINT theirs is the
only letter he may have received in week.
CoAXGNG MRS. CLEVELAND.
Ahout ono-half of tEcse letters ere sent 70
Mrs. Cleveland. Tho writers in such cases
are u u1l,Y the wives or daughters of the
Petitioners. Some OF them bestow upon
ldrs. Cleveland such titles as Her Majesty
'fmpfc~' anu other Applications of royal
~ There are few Of the letters that do not
contain some touches OF human nature.
They are evidently written in the sincere DO
hol Tint Ms. Cleveland win assist thcn n
hor ayHpltlic cun only De- aroused. With
iIl's otIcrt BOO view great mass of dptnt rs
aet forth u tie communication. which. to
Hr'lrr with obscure chir0grlphy and bad
polling make itH understanding matter. az
iln uonu1driahIe time mud labor
M uuY Doe nuIl boo tllf connection that
%" Dln t1a President nor Mrs Cleveland b.
fff1 uWHn Oi tue rNisffucn nf fhe lrfttin
lhrF urc opened hY un unrunnuflo aud un.
Hl'innnI clerk m ihr EEautu Mansion
fnn auD. hWda ihrY fi'l lnf1 fhe wnsie
nathrt lni Hrr meyer innrl uf again.
ihr women vim nldu.s Mr Cleveland
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Teacher giving directions for standing
Stnnd with youf hr0ls together tosg Turned
out, milking gn angle OF 80 dog Jhs was
followed ny a lUok of hewilhermoUt 0u one
boy face. TuchD Well T.m. do you
know what ! mesrt DO y0u know uhat a
degree iff Pupil Ncs, ar Tcarhor-
WHAT lupl-sixiY1inc uld one fourth
wilf Fli4H i0flIrf ~ lf ...'finH
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Address Registered LettGS to
NEW ORLEANS NATsG9AL BANK.
New Orleans, La

REMEMBER q qait the sfPa PssseSS p G Sa'
Fairly, who are in charge of the drawings, r
guarantee of absolute fairness and lnWgHSI
that the chances are all equal, and that no on.
can possibly divine what number will draw
Prize ,,.o.
REMEMBER that the payment OF an rIA,
is GUARANTEED BY FOUR NAIIUN ~,
BANKS of New Orleans, and the llcAets n'
signed by the President Of an Institution VIZ
chartered rights are recognized in the nlg.V5
Courts; therefore. beware OF any imitation"
anonymous schemes.
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, WOMAN IN plsrREss.
5creama That Made Tho Blood Of tho
N0ghDors Run Cold

10 ug tHir there was minn.e excitement
ont "h i..la nfnue mst might would b. put
uh2 b. h" mildly Such tenn could mot
'hi'' Poi" h.mm th. horor tho paulc
r.I.i ... .- . 81.
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SIZE RooMs-See floor plans.
HEIGHT OF SroRIEs Cellar, feet inches First Story,
Get; Second Story, s feet
MATERIALS Foundation brick First Story clapboards
md Story, clapboaIds; Roof, shingles
CosT-$1 $50 to 81 800 complete.
SPECIAL FEATUREs-A compact arrangement of in
simple form aordng good accommodations for family of six
eVen
The paror family is large and has closets and
alcOve bay the end 1t has chimney breast and ue
stove, which connected with the kitchen and drngoom
chimney Where there lie large for general sitting in
this design there necessity for the other be very
large.
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Wrapped up this relic of the past in the
remnants of the old linen rag, which bad
evidently formed a portion of its owners
graye-clothes, for it was partially burned,
and put it away in my Gladstone bag,
which | had bought at the Army and Navy
StoreS-a strange combination, | thought.
Then with Billal's help | staggered oil to
see Leo. | found him dreadfully bruised,
worse even han myself, perhaps owing TO
the excessive wilderness Of his skin, ana
faint and weak with the loss OF blood from
the flesh-wound in his side, but, for all
that, cheerful rs q cricket, and asking for
some breakfast. Job and Ustane got him
IN TO the bottom, or rather the sacking, of
a litter, which was removed from its pole
for that purpose, and carried him out into
the shade ut the mouth of the cave, from
which, by the way, every trace or the
slaughter of the previous night had now
been removed, and there we all brcakfasted
and indeed spent that day and most of the
two following ones
On the third morning Job and myself
were practically recovered. Leo also was
SO much better that | yielded to Billalis
often expressed entreaty, and agreed to
start at once upon our journey TO kor,
which we were told was the name of the
place where the mysterious She lived,
though | still feared for its effects upon
Leo, and especially lest the motion should
cause his wound, which was scarcely
skinned over, to break open again. In
deed. had it not been for Billali's evident
anxiety to get off, which led us to suspect
that some difficulty ordanger might threat
en- US if we did not comply with it, Iwould
not have consented TO go.
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70 my astonished gaze a beautifully shaped
and almost white woman's foot, looking as
fresh and as firm as though it had been
placed there yesterday.
"Thou seest, my son, the Baboon,'' he
said, in a sad voice, 81 spake the truth to
thee, for here is yet one foot remaining.
Take it, my son, and gaze upon it,"
took this cold fragment of mortality in
my hand, and looked at it in the light Of
the lamp with feelings which l can not
describe, so mixed up were they between
astonishment. fear, and fascination. 1t
vas light, much lighter | should say than
it had been in the living state, and the
flesh to all appearance was still flesh,
though about it their chung "a family aro-
matte odor. Fol the rest it was not shrunk
or shriveled, or even black and unsightly
like the flesh of Egyptian mumm:es, but
plump II fair, and, except where it had
been slightly burned, perfect as on the day
of death--a very triumph of embalming.
Poor little foot! / set it down upon the
stone bench where it had lain For so many
thousand years, and wondered whose was
the beauty that it had upborne through
the pomp and pageantry of a forgotten
civilization-first as q merry child's, then
as a blushing maids, and lastly as a per-
feet woman's. Through what halls Of life
had its soft step echoed, and in the end.
with what courage had it trodden down
the dusty ways of death! TO whose side
had it stolen in the hush of night when
the black slave slept upon the marble
noor, ard who had listened for itegtealing?
Shapcly little foot! Wen might IL have
been set upon the proud neck OF aconquer-
or ben at last to woman's beauty, and
well might the lips of mobiles and of kings
have been pressed upon its jeweled white
,,asCf
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TEXAS TO THE FRONT AGAIN.
Two Houston Men Invest ST. Each and
Make $4,000.


New Orleans Picayune, Aug, 18TH
The story of how The Louisiana State
Lottery Company deals out fortunes
every month is known far and near.
Chances in the drawings are eagerly
taken by all classes. How many per-
sons have been suddenly made rich by
this Institution would be hard to tell
the number would almost seem IN
credible. 1t can be safely said, how
ever. that residents of every State in
the Union have p%rotited by it. One Of
the many made happy by the last draw
ing was w. II. Anthony, a dairyman
of Houston. Tex, who held one tenth
of No. 20, 255. which drew the capital
prize of $l50,0 600, collected by Wells,
Forge d Co.'S, Express through the
firm of L. w. House of Houston.
The other tenth of this ticket was
held 10y Mr.. George II. Zapp of the
salne place. This gentleman, accom-
panied by his son, arrived in the city
Wednesday night, and on presenting
his ticket 1T the company 8 Office the
following morning was handed a check
on the New Orleans National Bank.
He was greatly in need of the money,
and on the receipt of the news of his
good mex he fairy wept with JOY.
Nj. Il PIP is Il native Of Germany, but
for the p .St eight years has made his
home in Houston where he has been
clerking IN a cotton press. He is Il
large, fine looking man, So years of
ag,, and has "A wife and three children.
He has not decided what use he will
make of his newly found fortune, but
viii look cut for some profitable way
of investing il. Mr.. Zapp has visited
New Orleans before and will remain
here several days to renew old ac-
q%uaitances.
Apropos of Mr.. Zapp's visit to this
city it might be mentioned that his
nephew. Mr.. Orsini Zapp, of Round
Top, Texas, came here on "A similar err
rand in May, 1885. He was also the
winner of $1,000. The money he put
out in lard and stock in Fayette county,
Texas. To-day he is one of the NEST
prominent farmers in that section of
the country, and is blessed with a
happy family and has all the comforts
Of life. An investment of 81 in The
Louisiana State Lottery started him on
the road to prosperity,
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regular bearers and two spare hands, also
q band of about fifty armed A~mahagger,
who were to form the escort and carry the
baggage. Three Of these ~litters, of course,
were for us, and one for Billali, who, was
immensely relieved to hear, was TO be our
companion, while the fifth 1 presumed was
for the use of Ustane.
Does the lady go with us, my father'"l
asked of Billali, as he stood experimenting
things generally.
He shrugged his shoulders as he answer.
ed: eff she wills. In this country the
women do what they please. We worship
them, and give them their way, because
without them the world could not go on;
they are the sOurce of life"
"Ah,n l said, the matter never having
struck me in that light before.
I'VE worship them" he went on, "up to
q certain point, till at last they get unbear-
able, which, he added, "they do about
every second generation"
And then what do you do?" l asked,
with curiosity.
Then" he answered, with a faint smile,
eve rise, and kill the old ones as an exam
pie to the young ones, and to show them
that we are the strongest. My poor wife
was killed in that way three years ago. IL
was very sad, but to tell thee the truth, my
son, life has been happier since, for my age
protects me from the young ones.
''In short i replied, quoting the saying
of q great MAJ whose wisdom has not yet
lichtened the darkness of the Amahaggcr
thou hast found thy position one of treat
or freedom and less responsibility"
This phrase puzzled him a little at first
from its ~vagueness, though / think my
translation hit off its sense very well, out
at last he saw it, AMI appreciated 1t.
ayes, yes, my Baboon." he said, 81 see
It now; but all the responsibilities are
killed. ut least most of them are, and that
is why there are SO few old women about
inst now. Well. they brought it on them
selves. AS for this girl" he went on in &
graver tone, II know not what to say. SHE
is a brave girl, and she loves the Lion Leo
thou sawest how she chung to him. arc
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CHAPTER X.-sPECULATIONS.

llllIN III
hourof our
finally de-
Gliding t o
start, five
litterswere
broughtup
to the door
Of the cave
n ac-
conlpanied
by fou I
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/ UNTOLD AGONY
| FROM clTARRa.

that every dav, towar
/ could barely speak
ing and clearing of n
use OF Or. Sage's Cat
n and the cure hs
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A man will do almost anything TO in
crease the happiness Of he woman he loves
except TO leave her wben sac wants to get rid
of hin.
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"Royai Glue" @eads Everythingi

Broken China, Glass, Furniture, Ornsmentu,
Leather, etc. Everlasting tenacityi AlNsys
liquid and ready. Free sample visls st drug
ptsts and Cr0rprt
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THOMAS j.. RUSHING. Esq, s90e Pre- Street,
st. Louis, No., writes: Il was a treat suf-
ferer from catarrh for three years. At
times l could hardly breathe. anu was con-
stantly hawking and splitting, and for the
last eight months couid not breathe through
the nostrils. L thought nothing could be
Remedy, and / am now a well man. / be-
only sure remedy for cataIrh now manufac-
only TO give it a fair trial to experienc,
lnd a permanent cure"
ELL ROBBINS. Runydn :. =. Columbia Co..
Pa, says: my daughter 1aS catarrh when
she was five years old, Na-y badly. ueJy
DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy advertised, and
procured q bottle for ler, and soon saw
: that it helped her e. third ,ottlo Elected
onl - now eighteen years Did nd 1ounN
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DR.. Sage's Catarrh I
lieye it TO be the o
turcd. and one has
astounding results al
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CASE OF cATARRH WHICH THEY CAN NOT CURE.

Prof. W. HAUsNER, the famous mesmer.
list, of Ithaca. ~. Y, writes: "Some ten
years ago ! suffered untold agony from
chronic nasal catarrh. My family physi.
clan a me up as incurabie, and said [
must die. ny case was such a bad one
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SICK HEADACHE

it may trutbfully be said that the
universal. not n gland or tissue esca
Sold by druggists, for % cents a vial.
ical Laboratory OF WORLDS DIsPEN
Ruffal0. N. Y.
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SOLID AMERTCANISM.

They are endeavoring in New York
to get up celebration of Queen Vic
toria's Jubilee, and are soliciting
funds for that purpose. Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie, very wealthy gentleman,
and who must be from his name, of
Scotch descent, sends the following
brief but emphatic refusal to the
Treasurer, u Banker:
81 am an American citizen very
staunch Republican, man who rejects
the monumental idea as inconsistent with
and insulting to his manhood. | should
stulify myself where | to celebrate the
reign Of any hereditary ruler 4 was
born as free as Caesar"
That is tbs kind of sentiment and
manhood out of which to build q NJ
ton Hail Columbia"
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State News.

Ex-senator Henry G. Davis, was
once brakeman, and is now worth
100000. He used to be proud OF
abiding to his railroading, but now
he wants it understood that he was
not Panhandle brakemen.
A Miss Starr, near Richie G. H.,
recently answered an advertisement
for lady correspondent by young
man by the name Of Murdoch. Last
week lie came to Richie county and
they were married "on sight"
Hon. b. S, Morgan, State Superin
tendent of Free Schools, states in
circular he has issued, that "teach-
ers will not have to be examined on
physiology, hygiene and the effects
of narcotics on the human system"
until the examination next year.
Hon. Frank Beckwith having been
appointed by Governor Wilson as
Judge of the Thirteenth circuit, to
succeep Judge c. j Faulkner, who
resigned upon being elected Senator,
Mr.. Beckwith has resigned his posi-
ton as member of the House of Del
egates from Jefferson county. If
a special election is ordered and q
successor to Mr. Beckwith is chos-
en-, Jefferson county will have had
four Delegates in one term. As the
present Legislature is morally GER
tain not to meet again however, the
position will be rattle. an empty hon
or.
About eight miles below Ravens
wood, on the Ohio River Road is q
tract of land which is sure to be no
ticed by nearly every traveller over
that road. The tract consists OF
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eleven hundred acres, and is part Of
the original Washington tract. sur-
veyed by Father George himself.
With the exception of $50 acres, it
is all covered with the original for
est Of as magnificent poplars and
oaks as ever grew in West Virginia.
There areto be seen three hundred
poplars three or four feet in diane
ter, ts-ll and straight as an arrow.
The largest oak in all that country
grows on this tract. A number of
men in Jackson county wanted to
send it to the Centennial at Phila-
delphia, but the owner of the land,
DIR. Rogers, of Baltimore, wouldn't
consent. He wouldn't sell the land
or q single tree on it for love or
money.
One of the most fendish and
shocking crimes which has been per-
petrated in this State occurred at
Holidays Cove, Hancock county, ON
Tuesday about twelve O'Clock. The
crime was the deliberate and unpro-
yokeded murder of two women Mrs.
Luzella McWha, aged about seventy
years and her daughter, Mrs. Eliza
Baker, aged about forty-five. The
house in which the crime was com
mitted is the residence of Mr.. Van
b. Baker. The room where the
murders were committed, and where
hFNf 81
were found, is designated as sit
ting room, but it was also used by
Mrs. McWha, the mother of Mrs.
Baker, as her bed room. The bod
les of the murdered women were "
ing on the floor of this apartment.
Mrs. McWha was lying on her back,
and her daughter, Mrs. Baker lay
partly across the corpse of her
mother. Close beside the bodies
were found an axe and an iron car
bolt, stained with blood, these being
evidently the weapons with which
the victims had been killed. The
marks which were upon the heads
of the victims seemed to have been
lnnlcted with the bolt, but the pres
ence of the axe, and the fact that
one Of the victims had three long
and sharp cuts upon her head, in
clined men who viewed the bodies to
the opinion that the axe was also
used, although it showed no traces
Of the bloody baptism to which it
had possibly been subjected. From
the contradictory statements given
by the husband and other circum.
stances, suspicion points to him as
the probable perpetrator of the dia-
bolical deed. Mrs. McWha, the
mother of his wife, was wealthy and
in the event of her death and that
of his wife, he will inherit her pro
perty, seems to furnish the motive
for the terrible crime. He has been
arrested and vigilant efforts will be
made to get at the bottom facts of
the crime.
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''THE total value of the exports
of breadstuffs from the United Stat
es during the ten months which end
ed on April Both last was 1872, 205,-
97O, agaist sos, 558, 843 during the
corresponding period ofthe proceed
ing year. = Valley Spirit
THAT looks like protective tariff is
not closing the markets of the world
to our products. The above item is
nail in the free traders favorite
argument-that our exports are d.
minishing.
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w. d. Suit, Druggist, Bippus, Ind, ties
titles: Il can recommend Electric Bitters
as the very best remedy. Every bottle
sold has given relief i'll every case. One
man took six bottles, and was cured of
rheumatism of 10 years standing" Abra-
ham Hare, druggist, Bellville, Ohio, affirms
"The best selling medicine l have ever
handled in my 30 years experience, is
Electric Bitters." Thousands of others
have added their testimony, so that the
verdict is unanimous that Electric Bitters
do cure all diseases of the Liver, Kidney
or Blood. Only half dollar bottle at E.
c. Williams Jr. IL Bros, dru ggist.
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HENRY GEORGE has openly an
nounced crusade against poverty.
The manner of his attack is after
this wise lie lectures fer $50 per
hour several times a week and pays
the janitor who sweeps up the hall
and turns out the gas scyenty-fve
cents. Evidently George, like many
other people who are not near so
philosophical, believes in the maxim
that charity begins at home. His
crusade against poverty is crusade
against Henry Georges poverty.
Mr.. George is very ingenious and
his arguments cannot be lightly
brushed aside by every Aippant
thinker, but he would be more eifec-
tive if he were more consistent
Winchester Times.
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Congressional Contests.

In the Fiftieth Congress there
will not be the usual number of con-
tests for seats. So far testimony
has been received by the Clerk in
the House in the contested cases of
McDUFFIE VS.. DAvIDsoN,of Alabama;
WoRTHINGToN VS.. Posi-, of Illinois j;
Lowry VS.. WHITE, of Indiana; FRANK
VS.. GLOVER, of Missouri, and SMALL
VS.. ELLIOTT, of South Carolina. The
time limitation has not yet expired
in the New Hampshire case of
HAYNES VS.. MCKENZIE. Mr.. THGBE,
the Labor candidate, who came near
defeating Mr.. Carlisle last fall, has
allowed the prescribed time to lapse
without taking the preliminary steps
for contest. In the Senate there
may not be any contest, if Mr.. Lu-
cas- decides not to dispute Mr..
Faulkner's right to the seat.